I
would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the
Experimental Party, the artist-based political party - the "party
of experimentation."
An
initiative of the US Department of Art & Technology,
the Experimental Party has been formed to activate citizens
across the country in celebration of the universal spirit
of collective expression. This is an invitation to participate
in the jettison of reason and the escape from the clogs
of convention in surrender to the unbridled surge of spirit
and fantasy.
This
Website is an opportunity for you to become acquainted
with the Experimental Party - a stratum of reality that
has become rarefied to the extreme - anarchist entertainment
we have long dreamed.
To
gain the privilege of being a Member, a Participant or
possibly even an Activant, and to insure the success of the
Party, we
ask you to take this opportunity to carefully review these
materials. It is our hope, through your participation,
that the Party's message - "representation through
virtualization" - can be a vehicle to engage the disenfranchised,
to encourage new ways of thinking, to develop techniques
of surprise, and to encourage artistic acts of appropriation
and mediation from coast to coast.
We
need you - in this post-apocalyptic, 21st century era,
where corporatized media uses television to hypnotize a
nation of robotic brethren - to forsake this menacing world
and its reality by participating in a great political awakening
that promises unfettered creativity.
As
you will see, the Experimental Party represents this unique
opportunity. It is the key that unlocks the door to a new
reality which will fuel the momentum against anachronistic
tendencies, a world without fear and with unfeigned pleasure,
a visionary world inspired by the legacy of the avant-garde,
for which we all yearn.
Be
a Leader, be Experimental, embrace the Experimental Party,
and work with us to bring about an Experimental Reality
in 2004.
As
André Bréton once said, "perhaps the
imagination is on the verge of recovering its rights."
Yours
sincerely,
Randall
M. Packer
Secretary, US Department of Art & Technology |
